Posted on 07/02/2016 12:48:39 PM PDT by Elderberry
A team from Davis University, California, has designed a processor with 1000* cores, boasting a throughput rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and containing 621 million transistors.
As opposed to a number of other attempts, some reaching 300 or so processors, the KiloCore chip has been fabricated and run; it was built by IBM (who else) using its 32-nm PD-SOI CMOS technology (what else).
The basic architecture used is MIMD (multiple instruction/multiple data) and each of the seven-stage-pipelined cores has a 72-instruction set, single instruction/cycle. None of the instructions is algorithm-specific setting the KiloCore apart from GPU-class devices. The terrific throughput is achieved at a clock speed of a mere 1.78 GHz, at 1.1 V. Running at 0.84 V and 1 GHz the beast consumes 13.1 W, while peak power efficiency of 5.8 pJ/Op is quoted at 0.56 V and 115 MHz.
Each core is independently powered and can shut down to leakage-only power if it has no task to perform. Rather than a cache architecture, every processor can store instructions and data in a hierarchy of locations; local memory, one or more nearby processors, on-chip independent memory modules, or off-chip memory.
The wormhole routing employed implies, among others, that messages from an adjacent or nearby core will be routed via the circuit network; those from further away in the processor matrix will travel via the packet network. If thats a veritable can of worms to programmers remains to be seen. Each core has north-south-east-west comms buffers plus a fifth channel for host-processor traffic; maximum throughput is 45.5 Gbps per router and 9.1 Gbps per port at 1.1 V.
* as a niggling detail, K in my computerized editor's dictionary is for kilo = 1024. Sure, k is also for kilo, but meaning 1000 in old money, like in kHz.
Trust me. Robots will eat your brain.
More like, we will get conned into feeding our brains to robots.
AntiChrist stuff. We’re all gonna f***in’ die.
Maybe a generation with dead souls will appear.
We already have a frightening precedent. FR is very engrossing, and it’s only run by people.
What if a computer could be programmed to come up with what is calculated to engross you? You could spend your whole dear LIFE on line.
And I mean it about FR. FR is a good “venting” platform, but where does the steam end up going? Mostly into the teapot tempest. For its participation, its outreach has become anemic. I remember in the older school days, the TRT and other IRL organizations. Has that faded into nothingness now?
It shouldn’t be. Niggling is only racist to those without an education.
The Chinese already have all this technology. Stolen from slimebag slug Hillary’s emails.
Niggling is so whitey.
Is that part of Skynet?
Maybe then it will be a more peaceful world as AI will rule by and with common sense instead of emotions.
IOW, to precisely the people most apt to be offended!
what do we need that for?
Sure haven’t seen a FReeper After Action report in many a year.
I want several. Wonder if they’d run in parallel?
The article didn’t touch on the most important thing: will it run Windows 10? No? Okay, how about Linux?
32-nm PD-SOI CMOS ??? ... a little large since I’ve been working on 16nm designs for a couple of years now ... and most recently 10nm
Great, now I’ll need a 50 character password!
The robots at the truck factory have teams of human servants that feed them parts, fasteners, glue, solvents, paint and remove finished units. Not to mention clean up the mess they make, replace broken parts, fix programs that go haywire and numerous other tasks needed to make them run within standards.
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